IMPORTANT

Note:

• vDVS Installation User Guide
• DEB/RPM packages will be deprecated going forward and will not be available.

What's New

• Bug fixes & improved code quality

Contact us at

• containers@vmware.com
• Issues
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Downloads

Installation instructions

• ESX VIB: https://bintray.com/vmware/vDVS/download_file?file_path=VMWare_bootbank_esx-vmdkops-service_0.16.af85e2f-0.0.1.vib
• ESX VIB Offline Bundle: https://bintray.com/vmware/vDVS/download_file?file_path=vDVS_driver-0.16-offline_bundle-6202625.zip
• Docker plugin: docker plugin install --grant-all-permissions --alias vsphere vmware/docker-volume-vsphere:0.16
• DEB: https://bintray.com/vmware/vDVS/download_file?file_path=docker-volume-vsphere_0.16.af85e2f_amd64.deb
• RPM: https://bintray.com/vmware/vDVS/download_file?file_path=docker-volume-vsphere-0.16.af85e2f-1.x86_64.rpm

Change Log

0.16 (2017-07-31)

Full Changelog

Closed issues:

• CI fails with a vmdk-opsd error #1646
• Some improvements for the windows plugin PS script #1645
• Provide a simple installation solution for vDVS Windows plugin #1641
• vDVS plugin for Windows should be running as a Windows service #1623
• Docker cli lists volume as attached whereas admin cli shows same volume as detached #1621
• Need vendor support for Windows Service #1619
• File system for created volume is N/A #1615
• How to use the docker-volume-vsphere plugin with coreos (docker 1.2) #1607
• Resolve golint error #1601
• Add steps to update gh-pages manually to keep it sync with master/doc folder #1591
• Generate an instrumented vDVS plugin binary #1589
• Why using govc CLI instead of govmomi? #1586
• Add a uuid based verification of attached state for a volume #1580
• Replace diskpart (format) script with a PS script #1559
• Add a build script for the Windows plugin #1558
• Turnoff future timestamp warning from tar (while building managed plugin) #1556
• Ensure CI build runs serialized #1548
• tenancy.md is outdated and missing out information regarding _VM_DS and _ALL_DS #1536
• vDVS documentation main landing page is not showing images #1531
• [Part 2] Made Admin CLI return proper code to shell #1522
• [E2E] Make WaitForExpectedState util to also check if vDVS is running #1521
• GetVMAttachedToVolUsingAdminCli() should allow for same volume name on different datastores #1510
• Documentation Issues #1429
• Should user be allowed to modify default vmgroup attributes [default vmgroup removal] #1397
• Device attach fails on volume creation due to duplicate bios.uuid #1373
• Official documentation is a few months stale #1370
• Turn off Makefile target warning #1356
• Turn off unnecessary logs from cleanup routines #1355
• Unable to create docker volume for VFAT file system type #1327
• Refactor common code between photon_driver.go and vmdk_driver.go #1212
• Log config changes for vDVS driver are not applied on CI #1160
• Verify managed plugin works with Photon controller #1147
• Not able to update the 'description' of the tenant with empty string. #1094
• Support getting VM ID from photon for the volume plugin #907
• Capture plugin code coverage #869
• Support datastore clusters #556

Merged pull requests:

• Integrate with PowerShell Help system [SKIP CI] #1654 (shaominchen)
• Add uninstallation logic to windows plugin PS script [SKIP CI] #1650 (shaominchen)
• Enables ssh via Go for Windows OpenSSH server #1643 (venilnoronha)
• Implement a PowerShell script to handle vDVS windows plugin installation [SKIP CI] #1642 (shaominchen)
• Fixed request options init for create op. #1636 (govint)
• Shared plugin: implement "docker volume ls" #1634 (luomiao)
• Generate an instrumented vDVS plugin binary #1633 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Shared volume create #1631 (shivanshu21)
• Trivial format fixes [SKIP CI] #1630 (shaominchen)
• Fixes formatting in docker-volume-auth-proposal.v1_2.md [SKIP CI] #1629 (venilnoronha)
• Fixes formatting in docker-volume-auth-proposal.v1_2 [SKIP CI] #1628 (venilnoronha)
• Update tenancy.md in gh-pages[SKIP CI] #1627 (lipingxue)
• Support test and set of KV via vm listener #1626 (govint)
• Update plugin to support running as a Windows service #1624 (shaominchen)
• Introduce a 3rd-party vendor to support windows service #1622 (shaominchen)
• Fix in tenancy.md. [SKIP CI] #1620 (lipingxue)
• [SKIP CI] Update known issues with information about vfat file system #1616 (ashahi1)
• Enables Mkdir and adds Mount, Unmount impl for Windows #1614 (venilnoronha)
• Shared plugin: etcd starting up functions. #1611 (luomiao)
• #1545: Fix release instructions for documentation [SKIP CI] #1610 (girishshilamkar)
• #1545: Fix documentation issues #1609 (girishshilamkar)
• Turn off future warning from tar util [SKIP CI] #1604 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Update in CONTRIBUTING.md [SKIP CI] #1603 (lipingxue)
• A fix to address golint warning #1602 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Fixing clean-esx util to accommodate log config changes for vDVS driver #1600 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Adds windows specific handling to refcount and plugin_utils #1598 (venilnoronha)
• Fixes as per issue #202 on Kubernetes docs #1596 (girishshilamkar)
• [SKIP CI] Steps to promote document changes from vmware master to gh-pages #1594 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Updates NpipePluginServer implementation #1587 (venilnoronha)
• Use vm shutdown instead of power off. Fixes issue #1505. #1585 (shaominchen)
• Update known issues with information about support for DS clusters #1582 (ashahi1)
• Adding vendor etcd client v3 #1581 (shivanshu21)
• Reverting changes for - retrying vib installation #1579 (ashahi1)
• Add compile support of new plugin/driver "vsphere-shared" #1574 (luomiao)
• Making CI builds serialized #1573 (shuklanirdesh82)
• [E2E] Validation after admincli vmgroup and config ops #1568 (pshahzeb)
• Refactoring utility functions #1567 (luomiao)
• Adds Docker plugin build script for Windows [SKIP CI] #1565 (venilnoronha)
• Add a new util function to check if VM is fully back online #1563 (shaominchen)
• Replaces diskpart (format) script with a PS script #1561 (venilnoronha)
• Turn off unnecessary logs from cleanup routines #1557 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Rename top folders of vDVS #1555 (luomiao)
• Turnoff misleading error/warning messages #1554 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Adding retry logic to vib installation #1547 (ashahi1)
• [SKIP CI] 0.15 release vibBulletin and some instruction what to update #1546 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Returning proper exit code in cases where vmdkops admin command fails. #1543 (pshahzeb)
• [SKIP CI] Update tenancy.md #1542 (lipingxue)
• #1531: Fix the path for images #1541 (girishshilamkar)
• Adds fs implementation for Windows OS #1540 (venilnoronha)
• moving updated MD files from gh-pages branch to vmware/master/doc [SKIP CI] #1535 (shuklanirdesh82)
• Fix for the broken images on docs site #1533 (vishal-biyani)
• Refactors fs and mock_vmdkcmd modules #1504 (venilnoronha)
• Revamp CONTRIBUTING.md [SKIP CI] #1495 (shuklanirdesh82)